{"id":314755,"date":"2025-11-26T12:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/314755\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T12:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:31:08","slug":"dancing-with-the-stars-season-34-finale-recap-who-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/314755\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing With The Stars Season 34 Finale Recap: Who Won?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the Season 34 finale of Dancing with the Stars<\/a>, including who won the mirrorball trophy.<\/p>\n

\n\tDancing with the Stars has crowned another mirrorball champion.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeason 34 concluded on Tuesday night with a massive three-hour finale that saw the remaining five couples compete in three separate dance rounds: freestyle, judges\u2019 choice, and the instant dance challenge. It\u2019s been an intense 11-week journey to get to the final show, which also included an homage to all the contestants who have been eliminated along the way.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s right, all the eliminated couples from Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas to Jenna Johnson and Corey Feldman were back in the ballroom for one last dance. After the flashy opening number, they got straight into the competitive dances. <\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s a lot of ground to cover tonight, so let\u2019s get into it.<\/p>\n

\n\tJUDGES\u2019 CHOICE<\/p>\n

\n\tFor this round, the judges assigned each couple a dance style they haven\u2019t performed yet.<\/p>\n

\n\tSocial media personality Alix Earle with Val Chmerkovskiy.\u00a0Earle has had quite a few big nights already this season, but Chmerkovskiy says he doesn\u2019t think the influencer has peaked just yet. Carrie Ann Inaba assigns the couple a samba, which they\u2019ll be dancing to \u201cHip Hip Chin Chin\u201d by Club des Belugas. Earle spoke highly of working with Inaba in rehearsals this week, describing her teaching style as \u201crelentless\u201d \u2014 but in a good way! She said she tried to take in all the critiques she could, and it seems like if paid off. \u201cIt was just brilliant,\u201d Inaba told her, with Bruno Tonoili adding: \u201cYou were not good. You were incandescent!\u201d SCORE: 30 out of 30<\/p>\n

\n\tReality TV star Dylan Efron and Daniella Karagach.\u00a0After starting the competition toward the bottom of the leaderboard, Efron never thought he\u2019d be making it all the way to the finale. But, that day has come, and Tonioli assigned he and Karagach a paso doble, which they\u2019re dancing to \u201cStampede\u201d by Alexander Jean ft. Lindsey Stirling. The moment his shirt comes off, you know it\u2019s going to be a good one. \u201cMichelangelo himself could not have sculpted a better shape,\u201d Tonioli says admiringly. He was too speechless to say much more. Inaba says his hands got a little flat (which earned her some boos), but to be fair Derek Hough agreed. SCORE:\u00a028 out of 30<\/p>\n

\n\tActor Elaine Hendrix with Alan Bersten.\u00a0Derek dropped into training to task Hendrix and Bersten with a rumba to \u201cTake My Breath Away\u201d by Jae Hall. It\u2019s sort of a miracle that the actress made it this far, considering the injuries that have plagued her this season, so she\u2019s ready to leave it all out on the dance floor. \u201cThat was exquisite. It truly was,\u201d Derek tells her after the routine. The other judges were on the same page with only positive things to say about her first dance of the night. SCORE:\u00a030 out of 30<\/p>\n

\n\tWildlife conservationist Robert Irwin with Witney Carson. Irwin claimed the top of the leaderboard last week, so he\u2019s got to keep the hot streak going for the finale. He and Carson have been assigned a quickstep to \u201cAre You Gonna Be My Girl\u201d by Jet, courtesy of Derek. Irwin suffered an injury during rehearsals, and he\u2019s a bit worried that going too hard on this dance might leave him unable to dance the other two rounds, but he doesn\u2019t want Carson to go easy on him, either. Quite the dilemma! Turns out, he had nothing to stress over. \u201cRobert, the quickstep king!\u201d Derek declares after the routine.\u00a0SCORE: 29 out of 30<\/p>\n

\n\tOlympic gold medalist Jordan Chiles with Ezra Sosa.\u00a0The final dance of the first competitive round, these two will be performing a paso doble to \u201cBreakin\u2019 Dishes\u201d by Rihanna. Inaba delivers the news and spends some time with the couple in rehearsals to make sure Chiles is prepared. She and Sosa ended the night last week with a perfect score, so they\u2019ve got to bring it once again for the finale, especially since this marks Sosa\u2019s first time making it all the way to the end. Inaba didn\u2019t love it, but her counterparts disagreed. \u201cYou just go for it with so much determination, darling, you\u2019re great,\u201d Tonioli told her. SCORE: 29 out of 30<\/p>\n

\n\tINSTANT DANCE<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is a new challenge, and each couple will find out their dance style and music just five minutes before they step onto the ballroom floor. The celebrities will rely on muscle memory more than anything else, since the pros won\u2019t have time to truly choreograph. <\/p>\n

\n\tSocial media personality Alix Earle with Val Chmerkovskiy.\u00a0The couple was assigned a cha cha to \u201cWhere Is My Husband!\u201d by Rae. She comes out swinging, delivering a dance that\u2019s hard to believe wasn\u2019t prepared in advance. \u201cFirst of all, blown away, because that was fantastic,\u201d Inaba said. SCORE: 30 out of 30<\/p>\n

\n\tReality TV star Dylan Efron and Daniella Karagach.\u00a0Efron blindly chose a foxtrot for this performance, which they\u2019ll perform to a TikTok favorite song, \u201cOrdinary\u201d by Alex Warren. In rehearsals, he says he\u2019s hoping for the foxtrot because he feels pretty comfortable in frame, so he\u2019s got to bring it now that he\u2019s gotten his wish. Let\u2019s just say, he pulls it off. \u201cI don\u2019t think you know how amazing that was!\u201d Inaba tells him. Derek added: \u201cWe were just sitting here going like, \u2018What am I looking at?!\u201d SCORE:\u00a030 out of 30<\/p>\n

\n\tActor Elaine Hendrix with Alan Bersten.\u00a0These two drew a quickstep to \u201cYou Can\u2019t Hurry Love\u201d by The Supremes. The last time she danced a quickstep was during Disney Night<\/a>, and she got pretty good feedback, so at least there\u2019s that. She had quite a few foot folds and missteps, but the judges agreed those were minor, and they were more impressed with how she kept up with the dance despite it all. It is one of the hardest dances to perform, let alone with no preparation! SCORE:\u00a027 out of 30<\/p>\n

\n\tWildlife conservationist Robert Irwin with Witney Carson.\u00a0Irwin is tasked with a cha cha to \u201cCake by the Ocean\u201d by DNCE. By the look on his face when the dance style is revealed, this one could go either way. He last performed a cha cha on Disney Night, and it was one of his lowest scores of the season, so this could be a redemption round for Irwin. He says in rehearsals that this is the one dance that\u2019s never really made sense to him, and it sort of shows in this performance, but the personality that he brings to the dance really sells it anyway. \u201cI was nervous for you for that one, but my guy, the rotation\u2026the performance\u2026it was honestly so incredibly impressive,\u201d Derek says. SCORE: 30 out of 30<\/p>\n

\n\tOlympic gold medalist Jordan Chiles with Ezra Sosa.\u00a0Closing out this round, these two are assigned a tango to \u201cI Like It\u201d by Alesso and Nate Smith. The last time they danced a tango, they got eights across the board, so this is their chance to bring that score up and show off how much Chiles has improved since then. \u201cThere\u2019s not much to say other than I couldn\u2019t have thought of a better dance for you for that challenge,\u201d Derek says. SCORE: 30 out of 30<\/p>\n

\n\tFREESTYLE<\/p>\n

\n\tThis fan-favorite round is back, of course. The pros got to choreograph this dance however they wanted, which allows them to play to their celebrity partners\u2019 strengths while also challenging them more than ever before. <\/p>\n

\n\tSocial media personality Alix Earle with Val Chmerkovskiy.\u00a0Dancing their freestyle to a mashup of \u201cManeater\u201d by\u00a0Nelly Furtado\u00a0and \u201cSports Car\u201d by\u00a0Tate McRae, Earle and Chmerkovskiy want to highlight how much they\u2019ve elevated each other this season. She comes out swinging with one of her fiercest performances of the entire season. She truly looked like a pro. It\u2019s a far cry from the shy performer that first met Chmerkovskiy just about three short months ago, which she says is exactly what she was going for. \u201cThank you so much for letting us witness that,\u201d Derek says. Tonioli chimes in to tell her she\u2019s a \u201cdominatrix unleashed!\u201d SCORE: 30 out of 30<\/p>\n

\n\tReality TV star Dylan Efron and Daniella Karagach.\u00a0These two are tasked with a freestyle to \u201cSomething in the Heavens\u201d by\u00a0Lewis Capaldi. Efron says that, for the first few weeks, he was not proud of himself after his performances, but now he\u2019s finally feeling like he\u2019s accomplished something worth his pride. Karagach wants to showcase \u201cthe energy of dance\u201d to illustrate how Efron has fallen in love with performing during this competition. \u201cI though this dance was the perfect representation of what Dancing with the Stars is,\u201d Inaba says. SCORE:\u00a030 out of 30<\/p>\n

\n\tActor Elaine Hendrix with Alan Bersten.\u00a0For their final competitive number, Hendrix and Bersten are performing their freestyle to \u201cOpening: I Hope I Get It\u201d from\u00a0A Chorus Line. The actress says this process has taught her to believe in herself, and she\u2019s going to keep on dancing long after the show is over. Their performance is adorable, and it\u2019s so good that it even makes Carrie Ann Inaba cry. SCORE:\u00a030 out of 30<\/p>\n

\n\tWildlife conservationist Robert Irwin with Witney Carson.\u00a0The crocodile wrangler is dancing to a mashup of \u201cBlack and Gold\u201d by\u00a0Sam Sparro\u00a0and \u201cThe Nights\u201d by\u00a0Avicii for his final performance of the season. Irwin says he wants this dance to be a big giant \u201cthank you\u201d to America, and he also really wants to make his dad proud one last time. \u201cMate, that was a 24-solid-gold-karat performance!\u201d Tonioli exclaims. SCORE: 30 out of 30<\/p>\n

\n\tOlympic gold medalist Jordan Chiles with Ezra Sosa.\u00a0These two closed out the season with a freestyle to \u201cMotivation\u201d by\u00a0Normani, but no matter what happens, they\u2019re just happy they\u2019ve each gotten a best friend out of this experience. Chiles has really come into her own over the course of the show, and she\u2019s ready to bring that energy to her freestyle. She brought the house down with that energizing showstopper, which featured an appearance from Normani herself. \u201cThat is the best freestyle I have ever seen in 20 [years]!\u201d Inaba said. SCORE: 30 out of 30<\/p>\n

\n\tAND THE WINNER IS\u2026Robert and Witney!<\/p>\n

\n\tFor posterity\u2019s sake: Fifth place went to Elaine and Alan, fourth went to Dylan and Daniella, third was Jordan and Ezra, and Alix and Val were in second place. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the Season 34 finale of Dancing with the Stars, including who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1855,16621,88808,88],"class_list":["post-314755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-abc","tag-dancing-with-the-stars","tag-dwts","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}